First Astronaut Launch By USS May Be Tuesday
The article reports on a Wallops Island test where the Mercury capsule endured tougher conditions than upcoming flights. The 63 minute test saw a 14,000 foot altitude and 1,100 miles per hour speed, with an earlier misfire blamed on slow firing. Johnson met space officials to discuss accelerating programs and funding.
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USS
Overton Brooks
House Space Committee
Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S
America
Wallops Island
Space Agency
Wallops Tshand Test Center
Tv Johnson
Laos crisis presses Britain and United States
The United States Britain and France urged Russia to enforce a cease fire in Laos as fighting continued. Ambassador Llewellyn B. Thompson reportedly pressed Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko while London advisers warned a collapse of the peace effort could trigger broader Southeast Asian conflict.
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Britain
Russia
Indochina
United States
France
U. 8
Llewellyn B. Thompson
Andri Gromyko
London
May Receive Third U S Judge for Louisiana Districts
The article reports anticipated federal judgeships for eastern and western Louisiana with Senate leaders Eyelander and Long weighing candidates. Names mentioned include Leroy H. Scott Jr. and Richard J. Putnam among Western district contenders. The bill aims to add two new judges and a Lafayette division, with courtrooms in Shreveport Monroe Opelousas Alexandria and Lake Charles.
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Leroy H. Scott Jr
Shreveport
Sk. M. Nichols
Lake Charles
Lessley P. Gardner
Opelousas
Richard J. Putnam
Abbbeville
Conference Committee
Louisiana
House Judiciary Committee
Lafayette
Monroe
Alexandria
Identification procedures challenged in East Carroll suit
The suit targets voter registration in East Carroll Parish where 2845 whites and no negros were registered. Defendants include Manning Gremillion and Jimmie HH Davis with hearings likely in Monroe or Shreveport by late June or early July. The Justice Department notes this is the second discrimination case in East Carroll since January and the eighth under federal civil rights acts in Louisiana.
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Torney
Jack Gremillion
East Carroll
Manning
Gremillion
Guy
Jimmie HH. Davis
East Carroll Parish
William Rogers
Francis Joseph Atlas
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Justice Department
Kennedy
Louisiana
Ruston Streets Project Probed by State
State investigators set a probe into the Ruston street paving irregularities. Project engineer Felix Camors, a 27 year highway department veteran, has been taken off the job after contract awarded last August. Concrete borings tested grade and soil, but no findings report yet. About 45 cracks were seen on a recent inspection.
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Felix Camors
Highway Department
West Monroe stores extend hours six weeks Friday
Beginning Friday night for six weeks, most West Monroe stores including Chamber of Commerce retail members stay open until 8 p.m. The plan aims to improve service and boost trade with weekend drawings for registered customers who need not buy to enter. A sixth Friday drawing offers a special bonus prize to one winner.
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West Monroe
Retail Merchants Division
Chamber of Commerce
Wife Of Star Pam Garroway Found Dead In Home
Pamela Garroway, 34, wife of television star Dave Garroway, was found dead in their town house. An autopsy at Bellevue hospital indicated death from an overdose of barbiturates, with exact chemical results pending further studies.
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New York
Pamela Garroway
Dave Garroway
Henry Siegal
City
Bellevue Hospital
JFK Calls Laos Crisis Meeting After Day in New York
President JFK, after talks with Hoover and MacArthur, set the third Laos crisis meeting for 10 a.m. Friday at the White House. He said the tide of history favors determined action and warned that the nation’s own unwillingness could be its greatest adversary. Rusk rushed back from a Mideast mission.
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New York City
Herbert Hoover
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
U.S. United Nations
Adlai E. Stevenson
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
National Security Council
White House
Dean Rusk
Mideast
Washington
Reinninger Set For Trial In Spring Court
Monroe man Henry Reinninger faces a murder trial Monday before Judge Paul Stephens for the December homicide of his wife. The spring felony docket includes five more cases with juries, including Joseph Brown on burglary and others to be heard later in the week.
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Monroe
Henry Reinninger
Paul Stephens
Joseph Brown
Marilyn Zaiger
Robert A. Johnston
A. L. Woodward
Tommy Sanders
Three Plead Guilty To Burglary In District Court
Three men aged 20 to 25 pled guilty to simple burglary for breaking into Cloyd's packing house last Saturday night with several food items taken. A teenage defendant pled guilty to forging checks totaling $92.50 while others faced varying charges and continuances in Ouachita Parish court proceedings.
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Fourth District Court
Jesse Heard
Pnetn
Gordon L. Smith
Cotton St
Frank McQuiller
N. Second St
West Monroe
George Arvlin Murphy
Winnsboro Road
Cloyd
William Roy Fox
Route 1
Highway 80
John Allen Swan
Griffin St
Henry Neal
S. Derbigney St
New Orleans
Peach St
Ouachita Parish
Mary Johnston
Route 4
Lester Eugene Pinion
Richmond St
Benny Harold Weaver
Arrant Rd
Richard James Redmond
Carolina Hotel
Claud M. Almond
Olive St
Lemuel Milton Powell
Manassas St
Aubrey Charlie Stringer
Jonesboro
Robert Bearden
Calypso St
Earl Besant
Magnolia St
Joe T. Cage
Eighth St
Malcolm S. Brumfield
Martin Street
J. W. Clark
Idell Standifer
DeSiard
A. C. Jones
Arizona St
Ruston
Leon Gix
Rayville
Vernell Gaines
White St
Virgie Harris
Gatley St
Ernest J. Paine
Cypress St
James Henry Richard
Route 2
Downsville
Ethel P. McIntyre
Route 3
Percy Leonard
Pearl Street
Mock H hazardous devices Rain On Nation
The text describes a public civil defense drill and warnings about fallout from nuclear warheads. It notes 5000 officials relocated to emergency centers, New York weathered a near-total halt in activity, and small protests occurred with arrests while students staged sit-ins.
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Washington
New York
42Nd and
Broadway
Wall Street
International Airport
City Hall
Columbia University
City College
Peggy Guggenheim to donate Venice art collection
American heiress Peggy Guggenheim notified Venice mayor of her plan to donate her modern art collection. The works housed at Venier Dei Leoni Palace along the Grand Canal come from the Guggenheim Foundation president who brought them to Venice in 1948 for the Biennial. Reported tax concerns linked to a 15 percent levy on the collection influenced the decision.
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Venice
Italy
UPI
Peggy Gugenheim
Guggenheim
Giovanni Favoretto Fisca
Venier Dei Leoni Palace
Grand Canal
Guggenheim Foundation
Cuban Exiles Rally for Kennedy in Washington
More than 300 Cuban exiles marched in a 60-vehicle caravan from Miami to Arlington National Cemetery and then to the Lincoln Memorial praising President Kennedy for his stance against Fidel Castro. The event occurred Friday as the group demonstrated their support in the capital.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Fidel Castro
Miami
Arlington National Cemetery
Lincoln Memorial
Potomac River
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